“There is a lot of art in math and there is a lot of math in art,” said painter and dancer Emmie…
Note on the Title The second symbol in the title is an “epsilon.” It sounds Greek. It sounds geek! It’s both. I…
In my previous piece, I outlined this pervasive feeling of being <, this mix of imposter syndrome, stereotype threat, and my own…
When I was young, probably 4th grade or so, my mother told me I wasn’t a “S.T.E.M. person.” My mother is a…
Beginning in Fall 2019, the Department of Mathematics and Statistics stopped offering Math 26 which covered advanced topics in single-variable calculus.The department…
Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall…
Why does my math class have so few girls? Why did the engineering department here have only one female professor last year?…
In a recent piece for the Phoenix, “Why Mathematical Reasoning Should Be a Part of Civic Education,” Zhicheng Fan advocates expanded mathematical…
We now live in a world where reason and truth are under siege on a daily basis. The Economist declares that we…
It is no secret that some racial and ethnic minorities are underrepresented in the math, engineering, and the sciences. According to data…